Can you imagine living in a place as cold as your freezer ? Obviously it is impossible, hence in the first place, we have to differentiate between the coldest place on the planet, and the people with lower temperatures on Earth.
Both are going to surprise you and cause chills….Because, what should life be like in a corner of the world where 68º are scratched in winter below zero? Join us on this curious and icy walk.
The lowest temperature recorded
On August 10, 2010 , a team of scientists registered at a point of the Antarctic plateau, a temperature of 93º below zero .It was the lowest temperature detected until then, since 1983, the Russian station Vostok detected about 83º degrees below zero in the same place, just where they they had their facilities.After this striking figure, we can also refer to the one registered in 2005 in the Argus Dome (also on the Antarctic Plateau), with some 82.9º negatives.
These areas are inscribed in what is known as the «cold pole» of the southern hemisphere .Areas where, despite the existence of some other scientific base such as the Russian, are in reality complete spaces It is uninhabited, which is curious, because in the northern hemisphere the 80º below zero are sometimes touched, and if we find populated nuclei.
The coldest town on the planet
Surely you will remember an article from our space for supercurios, dedicated to the so-called «Road of the bones of Siberia».A place as frightening as it is relevant in "Soviet" history.Here are the remains of thousands and thousands of prisoners who, in Stalin's years, lost their lives building this road, the M56, which today takes us to the town coldest of our planet: Oimiakon.
The inclement conditions in this corner of the world, sometimes, all those who built them, were frozen to the few hours .
It is such an extreme Siberia that winter lasts sometimes 9 months, touching the 68º below zero.Our freezers touch the 30º below zero, and only by introducing the hand a few moments we complain of pain Can you imagine what it must be like to live in Oimiakon? Because if, although it seems surprising, here live about 500 people , a population used to these extreme temperatures.
The days when the cold is not so aggressive is about February, when you reach some "acceptable" 17º below zero. However, those who visit the town of Oimiakon just by chance, say that here, it hurts even when breathing, it is as if hundreds and hundreds of small needles will enter our throats to the lungs.
When they reach 50 degrees below zero, classes are suspended and everyone stays in their homes.It is also said, that at the time that you can get a fish out of the water, it freezes after a few seconds.The milk, for example, is distributed in blocks of ice and the worst, is definitely trying to have running water.It is always frozen.You will be surprised to know that only pencils are used in schools.The reason? The ink of the pens always ends up freezing...
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Image: Horacio Lyon, Jorge Valdes Romo, Matthias Klaiber
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